Pont Notre-Dame
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The Pont Notre-Dame is a bridge that crosses the Seine in Paris, France linking the quai de Gesvres on the Rive Droite with the quai de la Corse on the Île de la Cité. The bridge is noted for being th
The Pont Notre-Dame in Paris.
La joute de mariniers entre le pont Notre-Dame et le Pont-au-Change, by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, 1756, clearly shows the houses atop the bridge.
Destruction of the houses on Pont Notre-Dame in 1786, painted by Hubert Robert (1733–1808)
From the pont d'Arcole, a view of the bridge with 5 arches.
Marchand-mercier
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A marchand-mercier is a French term for a type of entrepreneur working outside the guild system of craftsmen but carefully constrained by the regulations of a corporation under rules codified in 1613.
Edme-François Gersaint's shop, in Antoine Watteau's L'Enseigne de Gersaint, in form a shop sign, though never used as such.